I found the quote I mentioned earlier in the thread on covers, and it's
every bit as good as I remember it. The speaker is Eddie Adcock, banjoist
and flat-picking guitarist extraordinaire; he was interviewed by Barry
Willis in 1990 (the interview appears in Willis's gigantic, messy book,
_America's Music: Bluegrass_):
"...there is a neat thing that takes place in the mind - just like some of
the finer art in the world - when you hit upon that note exactly the way
the guy intended to hit it the first time. Then you can get the idea and
the feeling and the emotion that caused him to do it. They're not your
emotions; you're working out of his brain even though he may be dead and
gone. It does something for you that nothing can do....And if you hang in
there and try to duplicate it in every way, then you can experience what he
experienced when he did even though it may have been fifty years ago. You
can feel him go through that."
Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
